Set Mo: How I Play Live
Set Mo’s 2018 was a big one. Having drip-fed their debut album over 11 months, one track at a time, the LP got a full release in February 2019, resulting …
12 emerging artists you need to hear this July
Tred Berlin-based Aussie Tred might be a new name, but he’s rapidly gaining a reputation for laser-guided electro killers. Debuting last year on P.Leone’s E-Missions label with ‘Intrinsic Field’, which …
Your Guide to Urbano’s Power Players: The New Stars, OGs, and Next Class
Música urbana is American music. The loosely defined term encapsulates Spanish-language “urban” music with roots in the culture of descendants of enslaved peoples across North, South, and Central America. The …
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Dallas electro: the unlikely story of the hard-hitting Texan underground
Dallas, Texas is an unlikely nerve centre of electro music. The city’s small but tight knit cabal of producers and DJs have been releasing essential underground tracks since the mid …
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Sounds Of The Future: How Sónar became the world's leading festival of electronic music and art
From 17th from 20th July, Sónar, one of the world’s leading festivals of electronic music, art and technological innovation, will return to Barcelona for its 25th year, and 26th event. The Spanish city’s annual …
Fresh Kicks 109: Lamin Fofana
Lamin Fofana’s music is reflective and complex, lucid and transportive, absorbing and beautifully abstract. More crucially though, for the Berlin-based Sierra Leonean artist and those who engage with his work, …
Kuala Lumpur's Kyo – club is at the forefront of Malaysia's techno movement
It’s just gone midnight and in a Kuala Lumpur basement, a heaving, sweaty crowd are watching a DJ bang out techno in near-darkness. It’s easy to forget that above our …
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Fresh Kicks 108: Nazira
At the forefront of Kazakhstan’s burgeoning underground club scene is Nazira Kassenova. As founder of the vital DIY club night, ZVUK, in the city of Almaty, and as a formidable …
On Cue: Plaid
From the unfolding climate crisis to the way technology governs our lives, you’d be forgiven for thinking the future looks bleak. Yet the experimental electronic act Plaid (Ed Handley and …
How electronic artists are reshaping Ghana's music scene
March is an important month in Ghana’s calendar; it’s when the West African country celebrates gaining independence from British colonial rule in 1957. The month also marks consecutive weekends of …
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